Hello Vlad,

>>>>1. What does Milan's code know that fbclient doesn't?
>>>
>>> Length of string in characters.
>
> For CHAR(N) fileds string length in characters is always N, for
> VARCHAR(N)

Is N stored in the client side struct (SQLDA, or what's it called?) If so,
why does Milan require the "bytes_per_character", if he decodes the
string, he can trim to the number of N characters, right?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

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